Having a sense of adventure might not immediately come to mind as an attribute one should have working for an electric utility. But it’s a pretty good one if you aren’t tasked with touching thousands of volts of electricity, and that’s the case for Emily Reitz, a...
More than 160 lineworkers gathered May 13-14 in Doswell, Va., for the Gaff-n-Go Lineworker Rodeo, which returned after two years of pandemic-related cancellations. Coordinated by the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives, the Gaff-n-Go...
Ideally, we should appreciate our lineworkers every day for the way they toil in darkness, in rain, in ice and in all kinds of unsavory conditions to keep the lights on. But the special National Lineworker Appreciation Day is coming up, and that’s reason to take a...
